“Some female individuals have voiced that they feel safer in open coach wagons, but especially regional trains on the route between Leipzig and Chemnitz still have compartments,” Pro Bahn's Karl-Peter Naumann told NBC News.

MRB said it was "still too early" to say whether the segregation — which is optional — would be embraced by all passengers.

Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn's website. Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn

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